Charles Berry (DE 1035) - Naval Cruise Book

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FOX DIVISION FRONT ROW--Delmar G. Jarman, SOGSN, Ronald C. Smith, SOG3, ENS Hubert F. Tahaney, Michael R. Whittaker, FTGSN, Roger M. Boehs, TM 2, William D. Comwell, SOG2. BACK ROW- -Thomas C. Weeks, FTG2, Brent L. Garri- son, SOG 2, Donald W. Mahoney, TMSN, Robert V. Fitzgerald, FIGS, George L. LaPierre, SOGSN, Vernon C. Wolff, SOG3, Travis L. Hopper, SOG3, William E. Austin, SOG2. NOT SHOWN--Jack J. Rudolph, SOC. 10 Mii Miiliiilii mm

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NOW STATION THE SPECIAL SEA AND ANCHOR DETAIL Although the Charles Berry visited many a port and sailed many a sea, most of her cruise was spent at sea detail, as anyone from First Division will testify. From the freezing cold of a Taiwan winter to the tropical bays of the Philippines, the ship used every conceivablecombinationof moorings and tackle to get into and out of port, and all sorts of brows and boats, scows and floats to get the liberty party and the visitors to and from the ship. Fighting First did manage to find time between sea details to show their stuff at sea, participating in a number of underway replenishments, while the gun gangs neatly demolished a target sleeve before the envious eyes of the Hunter- Killer Group.

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TWO BLOCKS DOWN AUSTIN TO HOPPER STRF.ET, THEN LEFT TO CORNWELL AVENUE Fox Division personnel demonstrated a number of latent talents during the Westpac cruise. Some worked on corres- pondence courses, while the music lovers invested in stereo tape recorders, or even took up playing the guitar or the ukelele. The Officer of the Deck was frequently astonished to see nothing but a large pile of camera equipment heading across the quarterdeck on liberty, but a closer inspection usually disclosed a Fox Division type buried beneath. The Petty Officer of the Watch was less astonished, for he was generally from Fox himself, as were many of the Shore Patrolmen. It was Fox Division Shore Patrolmen, in fact, who solved much of the Japanese language barrier by simply re-naming all the Japanese streets and landmarks after Fox Division personnel, past and present.